Well, I wasn't suggesting using FAT32 as a production file system. I was just suggesting it as a way to move things like those drivers that you were talking about between the OSes.
tom Mat Howard writes: > Thanks Tom. > > I guess the only difference is I want to use a couple hundred GB for > this purpose. I think I've heard FAT32 has a pretty good reputation > for fragmenting quickly and not working very well with larger drive > sizes. Is this true? I'll be formatting 2x 500GB partitions and 2x > 250GB partitions for this purpose. > > Thanks again, > Mat > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Tom Whitten<thomas.whitten at sun.com> > wrote: > > Mat writes: > >> I've been playing around with Linux quite a bit the past few years. I've > >> been using Gentoo for most of the time, then switched to Arch because > >> there was quite a bit less maintenance required but still offered the same > >> amount of flexibility. Then I switched to Kubuntu because I wanted very > >> low maintenance and very high ease of use. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu and I'm > >> not sure what else I can try in terms of linux distributions that will > >> offer something new to me. > >> > >> So here I am. I found out about opensolaris about this time last year and > >> tried it in Virtualbox and was pleased. So I decided to install it in it's > >> own partition. The only problems I've run into so far are that my sound > >> card doesnt have drivers installed, my network cards dont have drivers > >> installed and need third party drivers, and I cant mount my ext3 drives. > >> > >> I have a working Windows install which I used to download the 3rd party > >> drivers for my network cards onto my data drive (EXT3). Now I know I could > >> put the files in a USB drive or cd and then copy them over but I want to > >> be able to use my Ext3 partitions in OpenSolaris. The reason I dont want > >> to change the filesystem is because I'll keep a copy of windows and maybe > >> a linux distribution and I want these files accessible from all OSes. > >> > >> What can I do? Is there a filesystem that is fully compatible with > >> OpenSolaris that I can also use in Linux and Windows? > >> -- > >> This message posted from opensolaris.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> opensolaris-help mailing list > >> opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org
